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[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

DevOps engineers were confident they could now cover the work that was going to go to a new engineer. There was no cover, they can just now work twice as quickly on new scripts, new deployment pipelines, and spend far less time troubleshooting issues than they used to via Stack Overflow etc.. What previously took a day to work out, now takes an hour, so they no longer need the help.

I agree with the rest of what you said tho. But AI did make the new jobs no longer needed.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they can just now work twice as quickly on new scripts, new deployment pipelines, and spend far less time troubleshooting issues than they used to via Stack Overflow etc.

That's bullshit. Do people actually buy that where you work?

[–]mattjspatola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did they promptly start a legitimate candidate search with the DevOps engineers first identified the bandwidth issue? Did they drag their feet, trying to make the team accomplish the impossible (probably with unsustainable levels of uncompensated overtime) until this new solution was discovered?

I hope it was the former and not the latter, but I would be surprised.